Feeding device for bonbon-stamping presses.



C. BUST. FEEDING DEVICE FDR BONBON STAMPING PBEBBEB.

APPLIUA'IIOI IILED BEPT. 1 8. 1910.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

UNITED STATES rn rENT OFFICE,

CARL ROST, OF DRESDEN, GERMANY.

FEEDING DEVICE FOR BONBON-STAMPING PRESSES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL Ros'r, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Dresden, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feeding Devices for Bonbon-Stamping Presses, of which the followin is a specification.

The feeding of the bonbon stamping presses in actual use is carried out in such a manner that the rods of bonbons which have been cut to the required. length are introduced by hand into the machine. Later machines intended for the same purpose are provided with a mechanical feeding device which feeds the arriving string of bonbons to a periodically rotating polygon which is provided with a number of stamps corresponding to the number of sides of the polygon, these stamps being automatically inserted by the machine into the stamping mechanism and forming each time the lower stamp or die. The latter machines have, it is true, the advantage of working automatically and more rapidly than when the feeding operation is carried out by hand. They have, however, the drawback that at every stamping operation that piece of the bonbon string which is conveyed around the corner must be considered as waste.

Now, the device which forms the subject matter of this invention is a device for cutting the strings of bonbon mass to the length required for the further working and for subsequently throwing these lengths into the DI'QSS, thus not only avoiding the feeding by hand and obtaining a rapid working but before all avoiding the production of the waste experienced in the machines working with a polygon.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a section of thesame on the line 22, Fig. 1..

1, indicates a frame which supports a series of rolls b, around which passes a belt 2. Directly over the end roller 6, and mounted in the frame 1, is a roller 5, which cooperates with the belt 2, to form the mass of bonbon material into a string or strip a. Supported in the frame 1, above the plane of the belt 2, is a shaft on which is mounted a revolving cutter blade 0, to sever the strin or strip a, into desired sections. This kni e may not necessaril y be of the revolving ty as it is obvious that a reciprocating kni 0 may be employed.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

In a bearing formed in an extension 5, of the frame 1, and located over the plane of the belt 2, is a longitudinal shaft 6, which is adapted to be oscillated in any suitable manner. Secured to this shaft 6, is a depending frame 7, provided at its lower end with a plurality of fingers d, which may be swung in the path of the severed section of the string or strip a. Normally the fral'ne 7, is in such position that the fingers d, will be to one side of the plane of the belt so that when the shaft 6 is oscillated, the finwill contact with the severed sections of the strip a, and remove the same from the belt onto an inclined shelf 8, to direct the severed section to a press.

In operation, the bonbon mass is placed between the roll and the belt 2, and the latter is operated in any suitable manner to cause the same to feed the mass forwardly toward the knife 0. The revolution of the knife 0, is so determined that the string a, severed into sections beyond the. knife 0, and in the plane of the path of mov ment of the fingers (I. Then when the shaft 6, is oscillated, the fingers remove the severed strip laterally and away from the belt 2, to the inclined board 8, where it falls into a suitable press.

The knife 0 may also be carried by one of the feed rollers 5, Z) or an endless apron running over the rollersb, b or a chain.

Having now fully described my said invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an apparatus of the class described, the combination of a moving belt, a presser roll located above the belt, said belt and roller constituting means for feeding a string of bonbon material, a revolving cutter forsevering the string of material into sections, a rocking rod supported above the plane of the belt, fingers secured to said rod, and adapted to be swung into the plane of the severed section, whereby when the rod is rocked the fingers will remove the severed section laterally from the belt.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

CARL RosT.

Witnesses PAUL ARRAS, CLARE SIMON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. O. 

